A Taste of the Mother Country

THE CHEF: Giuseppe Tentori, executive chef of Boka in Chicago, was born and raised in a small town outside of Milan. At the age of 19, without speaking any English, he was invited to work at Gabriel's restaurant in Highland Park, Ill., before later working for nine years at Charlie Trotter's in Chicago. The restaurant is known for producing some of the best chefs in Chicago, including Rick Tramonto, Grant Achatz, Homaro Cantu and Graham Elliot Bowles.